My new favorite single first aid kit item: http://www.target.com/p/adventure-medical-kits-quikclot-sport-50-g/-/A-13945480?ref=tgt_adv_XSG10001&AFID=google_pla_df&LNM=13945480&CPNG=Health+Beauty&kpid=13945480&LID=17pgs&ci_src=17588969&ci_sku=13945480&kpid=13945480&gclid=CKaIrNiluMECFbPm7AodYi0A8g
This is a wound care game changer, once limited to military and medical use, now in public sale forms. Lots of brands and forms out there. Stop nasty wounds' bleeding before the loss is concerning, not a substitute for sutures. Just because you checked off "stop the bleeding" doesn't mean the chores are over. For the rides beyond the commute and range of rapid higher level care arrival: Bleeding stopped, but now you're looking at a wound (particularly cuts) that requires more work, but you need to stabilize it for transport, or dare say to ride out as is: http://www.nexcare.com/wps/portal/3M/en_US/NANexcare/Nexcare/ProductCat/~/Steri-Strip-Skin-Closure?N=4326+3294631226&rt=rud Butterfly bandage concept gets its PhD. Used for much more than description describes, replaced a super glue technique by which I once swore. Longest possible, real world wounds are never clean and dry, more often you need the extra to reach dry, intact surfaces to adhere. Obviously some gauze 2x2s and 4x4s, but my top dressing closure favorite is: http://www.vitalitymedical.com/coban-self-adherent-wrap.html?utm_source=google&utm_medium=base&utm_campaign=products&feed_special=google&gclid=CJ3DvLumuMECFTMQ7AodencAqA Beats tape by miles and since its always knees, elbows (bendy parts) that get torn up first in a bike wreck. It closes up and holds your wound dressing application so that it is rideable. Horse people, you know this as Vetwrap. For when the incident result will need more than a bandage: http://www.sammedical.com/products/sam-splint/ Useful to support for ortho injuries from a sprain to fracture. Takes little space, weighs less, beats taking your hatchet into the woodlands to harvest natural splinting for which you probably don't have binding materials unless you start tearing your jersey into strips. These few things so very limit the number of items to have for immediate care. Gloves and alcohol wipes for sure, and if you're likely to be afar, some packaged cleansing agent-soaked gauze to get mother nature and road debris out of any wound you hope to close. You're not sterile out there, so a water bottle to do a quick pressure wash of debris before antiseptic wiping is awesome (alcohol wipe the nozzle). Think ahead if you pack this stuff, if you don't feel like they offer a natural series of steps to the sort of injuries you'll expect, they'll do no one any good. Mentally rehearsing your response to wounds given the kit you've assembled will help. Step one is always a silent "I can do this". This has been true in my Scouting, military, and medical situations. Andy Cheatham Pittsburgh On Saturday, October 18, 2014 10:52:33 AM UTC-4, Tony DeFilippo wrote: > > Since early August I've had or have been close to others with some bad > luck on the bike and using a hatchet... I've been over the handlebars twice > and then this weekend a good friend put one of my axes (fiskars x15) into > his knee while splitting wood. All's well in each case thank goodness > though two out of the incidents involved the emergency room and the Axe > wound required an ambulance. > > Prevention of these incidents is definitely worth discussion and I've > given each allot of thought in that regards but the recent issue with the > Axe really has me thinking hard about my first aid kit for the woods and > while on the bike... We were lucky to have several level headed people > (couple of eagle scouts!) And the materials to improvise a tourniquet and > compression bandage. > > So as I've been pouring over trauma kits for my truck and campsite I also > started thinking that as a nearly every day commuter I should have some kit > with me on the bike just as I have repair tools for the bike. > > The things I'm thinking of so far include; > > -wound cleaner, alcohol wipes? > -antibiotic ointment > -sterile gauze bandages (typical road rash size) > -conforming wrap or athletic wrap or medical tape > -triangle bandage > -small assortment of band aids > -rubber gloves > > Would the following be overkill; > -CAT style tourniquet > -quick clot sponge or bandage > -'Israeli' style compression bandage > -trauma shears > > The scenario for this kit is urban commuting with professional emergency > responce time of 10 min or less, cell service at all times and the level of > training I have is relatively basic. (Scout and basic military level). Oh > and it needs to fit in either a large saddle wedge, frame bag or other such > unobtrusive, stays on bike type location. > > What, if anything, do you guys include in your on bike kit? > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
